Songlingornis

Il num vul dir: “Songling bird, named after a place in China”1

Mangiava: CharnUtschels primitivsCretacic tempriv

Songlingornis was an ancient bird that lived in China during the Early Cretaceous, about 121 to 113 million years ago. It had a slender, long beak with many teeth, and it walked on the ground looking for food like a small carnivore.1 2

Viveva

avant 121 fin 113 milliuns onns3

Cretacic tempriv

Fossils chattads en

Liaoning Province, China (near Boluochi, Chaoyang County)1 2

Lunghezza

0,1 fin 1 m (0,3 fin 3,3 ft)1

Spertadad maximala

var 27 km/h (17 mph)

Sgular, stima

Cura viveva el?

Triassic

Giurassic

Cretacic

avant 252 milliuns onns20114566, l'asteroid

Quant grond era el?

Quant lung era el?

uschè lung sco 2 giats da chasa dal nas a la cuauschè lung sco 6 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess sgular sur in entir plaz da ballape en 14 secundas

Quant grond era Songlingornis cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn arcunà u tramess.

Quant spert era el?

Ina persuna che va a pe var 5 km/h (3 mph)

In uffant sin il velo var 12 km/h (7 mph)

Songlingornis var 27 km/h (17 mph)

In chaval che galoppescha var 65 km/h (40 mph)

In gepard var 100 km/h (62 mph)

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

Songlingornis had more than nine teeth in its lower jaw, which is unusual for many early birds.1

Its sternum (breastbone) had a deep groove for the coracoid bone and a keel, which helped it fly.1

The only known fossil of Songlingornis is a partial skeleton missing the skull and forelimb, found in the Jiufotang Formation, a famous fossil site in China.1

It lived alongside fish, other birds like Cathayornis and Chaoyangia, and many other creatures in a lake environment.2

Scientists classify Songlingornis as an ornithuromorph bird, meaning it is more closely related to modern birds than to enantiornithines.1

Maletg da Songlingornis fatg cun IA — In maletg fatg cun IA che mussa co Songlingornis pudess avair guardà ora, fatg d'in computer tenor quai che la scienza sa. I sa tracta d'ina supposiziun: l'animal vair ha forsa guardà ora auter, e sias colurs vairas èn nunenconuschentas.

Chatschader da mitus

Mitus: Some people think Songlingornis was a dinosaur because it lived in the Mesozoic Era.

Vardad: Songlingornis was a bird, and birds are a type of dinosaur (theropod), so it is both a bird and a dinosaur at the same time.1

Per experts da dinos

Num scientific: Songlingornis
Numnà da: Hou 19973
Gruppa: Utschels primitivs
Famiglia / clada: Hongshanornithidae3
Classificaziun: Theropoda > Avialae3
Vegliadetgna da la crappa: 121 fin 113 milliuns onns (Aptian)3
Formaziuns da crap: Jiufotang3
Pajais: China3
Chats da fossils: 1 en The Paleobiology Database3
Scuverta: The Chinese paleontologist Hou Lianhai named Songlingornis in 1997, based on a partial skeleton discovered in the Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, China. The fossil was collected during searches for ancient fish in the 1990s.1 2
Anc discutà: Scientists debate whether Songlingornis belongs to the family Hongshanornithidae or Songlingornithidae, because the skeleton is incomplete and different studies place it in different groups.1

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Mesozoic Birds of China (naturalhistory.si.edu)
Songlingornis in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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